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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Smart City Citizen Innovation Workshop during Techweek KC

An interactive workshop to contribute to the next generation of smart city in Kansas City

Calling all attendees with an interest in building a smarter smart city in KC! This interactive event will bring together citizens, regional entrepreneurs, innovators, technology and infrastructure companies and city officials during a Smart City Innovation Workshop that will identify citizen’s needs, design prototype solutions through design thinking-driven ideation processes and create partnering relationships that can lead to pilots, commercialization relationships and deliver improved services to the citizens of Kansas City. All participants will gain deeper insight into the needs of the citizens during the citizen engagement workshop, providing a better roadmap to design technology driven solutions to address the problems that people face in their daily lives related to urbanization, digital inclusion and other challenges. Join us with your great ideas at Techweek KC!

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Why should you attend this webinar?

It is imperative for cities to implement new and often emerging technologies – smart city technologies - that can lower a city’s operating cost, improve efficiency, create new revenue streams while also providing citizens the highest quality of life possible. But how do cities select the right technologies that deliver real value and find the money to pay for it?

WHERE & WHEN

Wednesday

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May

30

at

12:00pm

Program Schedule

All event programs will be held at the Chamber Boardroom on the east side of the main floor of Union Station Kansas City

11:30am

Check-In

12pm - 3pm

Smart City Innovation Lab and Design Thinking Rounds with Citizens

(Citizens with free tickets are dismissed after this portion)

3pm - 5:15pm

Innovation Partnering and Designer Rounds

NOTE:

There will not be a meal provided so please plan accordingly. Food options will be nearby the venue room.

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WEBINAR HOST:

Herb Sih

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

THink Big PartNers

Herb Sih is Managing Partner for Think Big Partners, an innovation-driven professional services firm that advises the world's most progressive-minded cities, companies, innovators and entrepreneurs. Think Big builds smart cities, designs and implements smart technologies and unlocks the power of entrepreneurs and innovators to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges by using human-centered design principles to accelerate technology commercialization through its civic innovation lab network.

Herb has helped numerous organizations over the past 15 years through advice and mentorship in helping develop strategy, build, launch, execution and sales models. Primarily focused on technology driven companies, his special focus is in developing technology and business solutions for complex market environment.

WORKSHOP HOSTS

Herb Sih

Herb Sih is Managing Partner for Think Big Partners, an innovation-driven professional services firm that advises the world's most progressive-minded cities, companies, innovators and entrepreneurs. Think Big builds smart cities, designs and implements smart technologies and unlocks the power of entrepreneurs and innovators to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges by using human-centered design principles to accelerate technology commercialization through its civic innovation lab network.

Herb has helped numerous organizations over the past 15 years through advice and mentorship in helping develop strategy, build, launch, execution and sales models. Primarily focused on technology driven companies, his special focus is in developing technology and business solutions for complex market environment.

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Sarah Fustine

Sarah Fustine is a Partner at Think Big Partners and manages business operations and strategic partnerships. Sarah helps other cities, companies and communities become smarter through citizen engagement workshops, economic development consulting and workspace advisory. She specializes in designing and executing shared workspaces, building innovation districts and assessing the role of collaborative spaces in an ecosystem of entrepreneurial activity.

Think Big is an innovation-driven professional services firm that advises the world's most progressive-minded cities, companies, innovators and entrepreneurs. Think Big builds smart cities, designs and implements smart technologies and unlocks the power of entrepreneurs and innovators to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges by using human-centered design principles to accelerate technology commercialization through its civic innovation lab network.

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Attendee preparation materials will be sent prior to May 30 so that participants can gain the most value during the workshop.